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Liste générale des postes de France : pour l'année mil sept cent soixante dix huit.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1778 France
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France. Direction générale des postes.
- Postal service--France--Early works to 1800.
- Post roads--France--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Leather bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 141 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez le Sr. Jaillot geographie ordinaire du roi joignant les Grands Augustins, [1778].
- Notes:
- "Dressée par ordre de M. Claude-Jean Rigoley, baron d'Ogny ... intendant-général des courriers, postes, relais & messageries de France"--P. [9].
- "De l'imprimerie de Lottin l'aine, imprimeur-libraire du roi, 1778"--P. [1] at end.
- "Avec privilége du roi".
- Originally prepared by Hubert Jaillot to whom the royal privilege was granted in 1708; later edited by his son Bernard, his grandson Bernard Antoine, and his granddaughter's husband J.B.M. Jaillot until publication was taken over by the government.
- Engraved coat of arms on t.p.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in brown leather with gold border and small flowers in corners. Ridged spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Livres français conservés grâce à la Fondation Florence Gould," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2003.
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Samuel Breck (1771-1862): Books From the Library of a Philadelphia Francophile," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2013-14.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest; front endpaper signed: S. Breck.
- Athenaeum copy: Housed in a clamshell box in 2003 with a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation.
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